Field Activity 2007-004-FA

Identifier 2007-004-FA
Purpose Sea floor mapping of the Mona Passage using multibeam sonar. Deploy 5 OBSes in the Puerto Rico Trench.
Location Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic, northeast Caribbean, North Atlantic;
Summary Collected over 4200 km2 of multibeam bathymetry data at a grid spacing of 30 m.
Info derived Bathymetric maps; Morphology;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Uri ten Brink - Chief Scientist; William Danforth; Brian Andrews; Claudia Flores. Project = Tsunami and earthquake hazards in the NE Caribbean, Tsunami and earthquake hazards in the NE Caribbean
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Platform
Nancy Foster
Length 187 feet; beam 40 feet; draft 12.8 feet.
Itinerary
Start San Juan, Puerto Rico 2007-03-14
End Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 2007-03-26
Days in the field 13
Bounds
West -68.6667
East -67
North 19
South 17.83333

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Uri Ten Brink
Crew members
William W Danforth
Scientist, Staff
Uri Ten Brink
Scientist, Staff
Claudia Flores
Scientist, Staff
Brian Andrews
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
William W Danforth
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal NOAA-PMEL
Affiliate staff Christopher Chamberlin - NOAA PMEL/JISAO, Brooke McMahon - NOAA PHB, Kelly Carrignan - NOAA NGDC/CIRES, Jason Chaytor - WHOI/USGS post-doc

Data types and categories

Data category: Sonar, Environmental Data, Location-Elevation
Data type: Multibeam, Temperature, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Simrad EM1002 Multibeam (no data reported)
XBT Temperature (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity